MÉRIDA, Venezuela- José Betancourt, 75, climbed to the glacier of Pico Bolívar, Venezuela’s highest peak, 158 times before it ...

Arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment -- particularly during recent elections -- are among ...

Civil and political freedoms in Venezuela have sharply deteriorated over the past year, according to the United Nations’ top ...

Ahead of the Speak Up for Justice panel, JURIST Associate Editorial Director Alanah Vargas spoke with Judge Eleazar Javier Saldivia, a former Venezuelan Supreme Court judge now living in exile, ...

Growing up in Venezuela and now living in the United States, I’ve always felt caught between two independence days: July 4th ...

Guyana has pledged to crack down on gold smuggled across the border from neighboring Venezuela at the urging of the U.S.

In Venezuela’s oil capital of Maracaibo, a drilling frenzy has led to dozens of new wells — but the valuable liquid being ...

He has defended the administration’s most controversial court arguments in favor of its mass-deportation agenda. No one is ...

Guilty pleas reduced their sentences but the Special Criminal Court found the men were more than mere drugs mules ...

Desmond Elliott Prize winner Claire Adam creates the illusion of real life on the page in the story of a middle-aged Londoner searching for her adopted daughter ...